American runner Wilma Rudolph prior to her victory in the Women's 100m sprint at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. It was the first of Rudolph's three gold-medal performances at the games. Photograph: Robert Riger/Getty Images The title of the picture book is When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball. It runs to just 33 pages, contains illustrations on just about each one, and tells the uplifting story of how the future world’s fastest woman grew up, overcoming polio, poverty and prejudice in segregated Tennessee in the 1940s. An uplifting yarn, you could see it inspiring a child of primary...